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So you’d think maybe Terrence Edwards would have had enough of this town, its quarterback merry-go-round and seemingly endless Grey Cup drought.

You’d think the smooth receiver with the slender shoulders and soft hands might want to fake left and shimmy over to a place where the spirals are delivered by the same arm every week, where it feels like every season could end with a parade.

You’d think wrong.

“This is where God wants me to be,” Edwards, fresh off signing yet another contract extension, said from his Atlanta home, Friday. “It’s the best city to play in the CFL. The fans are passionate. They love the Blue Bombers. And I’m a Blue Bomber at heart. Just like I feel strongly about my university, the University of Georgia, I feel strongly about this team, this organization and this city.

“I never had the desire to even test free agency. Once I got there in 2007 I kind of knew that — it feels like the right place for me.”

That’s why Edwards, a month from his 34th birthday, has signed up for a seventh and eighth season.

“Winnipeg is where I want to finish my career,” he said.

Even if that means continuing to catch balls thrown from the infirmary, it seems.

Not only did Edwards not demand to see GM Joe Mack’s plan at quarterback before signing, it sounds like he didn’t even ask.

“I know we have Buck still there, Joey and Alex,” Edwards said. “And we just re-signed Justin. As far as I know we’re going to rock ’n roll with those four. I assume Buck is probably going to be named the starter. But I don’t know.”

Edwards was quite vocal at one point last season in saying the status quo simply wouldn’t do, that the Bombers couldn’t continue the revolving door at pivot.

Apparently he’s turned those concerns over to a higher power. Higher than Mack, even.

“Whoever’s named the starter, my only wish is God could put his hands on him and let him play all 18 games.”

Edwards knows Pierce gives this team the best chance to win — and the best chance to be driven around the bend by injuries.

But he won’t say it’s time to move on.

“In 2011 he played 15 games,” Edwards said. “When you have a guy like that who fights and scratches, you never know — this year he might play all 18.”

One thing Edwards has allowed himself to wonder: how good his career numbers could have been with a consistent quarterback.

Coming off his third straight 1,000-yard season, and fifth in six seasons with the Bombers, No. 82 has quietly climbed into fourth place on Winnipeg’s all-time list for receiving yards with 6,651, behind only Joe Poplawski, James Murphy and Milt Stegall.

“I always tell people I’m one of the underrated players in the CFL,” he said. “I still don’t get talked about as much as a lot of other receivers. And I always wonder, what if I had an A.C. or somebody... one quarterback. For almost three years now I’ve played with three different quarterbacks all three years. But, who knows?”

If leaving Montreal and Anthony Calvillo seven years ago is a bittersweet memory for Edwards, he doesn’t acknowledge it.

He prefers to focus on the route he is running — straight into Blue Bomber history.

“Once my career is over, I could be No. 2 behind Milt, who knows?” Edwards said. “I know the Poplawskis and the Murphys... so it’s a humbling experience for my name to even be mentioned in the same breath as theirs.

“Maybe one day I can be in the Blue Bomber Hall of Fame. It’s just been great. This is where I’m supposed to be.”

Bombers extend contract of slotback Terrence Edwards

So you’d think maybe Terrence Edwards would have had enough of this town, its quarterback merry-go-round and seemingly endless Grey Cup drought.

You’d think the smooth receiver with the slender shoulders and soft hands might want to fake left and shimmy over to a place where the spirals are delivered by the same arm every week, where it feels like every season could end with a parade.

You’d think wrong.

“This is where God wants me to be,” Edwards, fresh off signing yet another contract extension, said from his Atlanta home, Friday. “It’s the best city to play in the CFL. The fans are passionate. They love the Blue Bombers. And I’m a Blue Bomber at heart. Just like I feel strongly about my university, the University of Georgia, I feel strongly about this team, this organization and this city."